His DreamWorks studio is struggling at the movie theater but finally seeing some hits on the small screen with 'Under The Dome' and 'Extant.' Spielberg returns to the director's chair for the first time since 'Lincoln' with a new Cold War movie starring Tom Hanks and written by the Coen Brothers, due out in 2015. He is also set to direct an adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel 'The BFG,' scheduled for release in 2016. After failing to get into USC film school, the most-powerful man in Hollywood got his start as an unpaid intern in the editing department of Universal. Today, a slice of the cash from every ticket at Universal theme parks goes directly into Spielberg's pocket thanks to blockbuster hits like ET and Jaws. More »

Hillary Clinton has always been a master at adjusting her strategy and rhetoric to fit the situation. As we enter the realm of what will be America’s (and the world’s) most expensive presidential election ever, her obvious goal is to raise as much money as possible to bolster her chances to become America’s first female president.

Twenty years ago Vin Diesel couldn’t get a role in Hollywood, a plight so comical that he made a semiautobiographical short about it. In it the young, bronzed Diesel gets turned down for a beer commercial by an African-American director. “I’m going to be honest with you–you’re a little too light,” he says, before encouraging him to pursue read »

If you had to name the biggest blockbuster movie of the 20th century, the chances are you’d say Jaws, the monster shark hit that marked its 40th anniversary this month with nationwide theatre screenings.Few movies have made had such a lasting impact. As well as driving people out of the water, it drove some to incorporate its phenomenal appeal read »

Los Angeles is finally getting a movie museum of cinematic proportions. L.A. City Council this week gave final approval on Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano’s plan for a 290,000-square-foot Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. To me, the glass and steel sphere, next to L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, looks like the Death Star read »

I have to admit it – I read critics. The last thing I want to do is take one of my rare evenings off and spend it in a three-hour movie experience that disappoints. So before I decide to commit my time and money to a film, I read what is written, I look at the Tomatometer, and I try and make an informed read »

This Friday sees the opening weekend of Jurassic World, which will debut fourteen years after the last installment and twenty-three years almost to the day since the original Jurassic Park debuted. This July 4th weekend will see Terminator: Genisys attempt to rock the Independence Day box read »

Jurassic World hits American movie theaters this June 12th, becoming the latest summer tentpole attempting to co-exist as a thrilling action film on its own, while technically still a sequel in a franchise. The new Jurassic Park doesn’t have Sam Neil as paleontologist Alan Grant or Jeff Goldblum as Ian read »

It’s been 22 years since Steven Spielberg made Jurassic Park, and 14 since a Jurassic Park movie – which is to say, Jurassic Park 3 – was in movie theaters. People who saw the first film as children are now young adults with jobs who can pay for their own movie tickets. That coveted 18-34 demographic! At this point, read »

Unsurprisingly, Fox has once again cemented itself as the most genre heavy network of the big four in the upcoming season with series including another DC comic book adaptation in Lucifer, an anthology horror series in Scream Queens and, as this new trailer makes clear, a new sci-fi drama in Minority Report.

By the time you read this, millions of people will have already seen Avengers: Age of Ultron. The film opened early on Thursday and by the end of its first weekend in theaters it could bring in as much as $260 million at the domestic box office alone.

That estimate is at the top of my colleague Scott Mendelson’s estimate read »